Contents: Part I:Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic.K.E. Stanovich, A.E. Cunningham, Reading as Constrained Reasoning. M. Bryson, C. Bereiter, M. Scardamalia, E. Joram, Going Beyond the Problem as Given: Problem Solving in Expert and Novice Writers. S.M. Sokol, M. McCloskey, Cognitive Mechanisms in Calculation. Part II:Social Sciences.J.F. Voss, C.R. Wolfe, J.A. Lawrence, R.A. Engle, From Representation to Decision: An Analysis of Problem Solving in International Relations. R.K. Wagner, Managerial Problem Solving. J. Funke, Solving Complex Problems: Exploration and Control of Complex Social Systems. E. Amsel, R. Langer, L. Loutzenhiser, Do Lawyers Reason Differently from Psychologists? A Comparative Design for Studying Expertise. Part III:Natural Sciences.M. Hegarty, Knowledge and Processes in Mechanical Problem Solving. A. Lesgold, S. Lajoie, Complex Problem Solving in Electronics. D.S. Kay, Computer Interaction: Debugging the Problems. Part IV:Games.P.A. Frensch, R.J. Sternberg, Skill-Related Differences in Game Playing. Part V:Conclusions.E. Hunt, Some Comments on the Study of Complexity.
Robert J. Sternberg, Peter A. Frensch
"...succeeds in providing readable introductions...a major
accomplishment. It is very easy to overwhelm readers with the
complexity of the tasks and the complexity of the models designed
to describe performance on the tasks. Add to this the unfamiliarity
of the tasks to many readers and the authors have a major challenge
on their hands. They clearly meet the challenge....useful for
researchers working within the domain of problem solving as well as
for people seeking a basic understanding of this topic."
—Contemporary Psychology"...strengthens psychology's claim to new
domains and methods in the study of problem solving....if you have
been wondering what has been happening recently in the higher end
of cognitive psychology, then this book is well worth reading."
—American Journal of Psychology"...contains chapters of uniformly
high quality that illustrate how cognitive psychology is coming to
understand complex problem solving in a wide range of human
endeavors. There is a rich offering of methods, findings, and
research problems in the areas of reading, writing, and calculation
through to problem solving in electronics, legal reasoning, and
international relations....Students of problem solving will
appreciate the change that this book represents from the earlier
experimental work on simple laboratory tasks."
—Robert Glaser
University of Pittsburgh
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